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  1. rtrent Posted 10 months ago

    I'd like to include short snippets (~250 characters) of my exhibit descriptions on my exhibit browse page. I've got a sneaking suspicion the problem/answer must be something rather obvious to another set of eyes.

    The relevant bit of my code in plugins/ExhibitBuilder/views/public/exhibits/browse.php goes as such:

    <div id="exhibits">
    <?php $exhibitCount = 0; ?>
    <?php while(loop_exhibits()): ?>
    	<?php $exhibitCount++; ?>
    	<div class="exhibit <?php if ($exhibitCount%2==1) echo ' even'; else echo ' odd'; ?>">
    		<h2><?php echo link_to_exhibit(); ?></h2>
    		<div class="description"><?php echo exhibit('Description', array('snippet' => 300)); ?></div>
    	</div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
</div>

    In the page that results, though, the description is there, in full, un-snipped. Any clues?

  2. John Flatness (Omeka Dev Team) Posted 10 months ago

    Unlike item(), the Exhibit Builder's exhibit() function doesn't support many options, including the 'snippet' option.

    Instead, you can pass the output from exhibit() to Omeka's snippet() helper:

    <?php echo snippet(exhibit('Description'), 0, 300); ?>

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